Callie Feyen

I take my summer reading with me just about everywhere we go these days.  I’m finding it’s easy to get a few pages in here and there while the girls play at a park. The other day Hadley ran over to the bench I was sitting on and asked if I would read to her.  Harper followed behind and echoed… View Post

I ate red pepper flakes when I was in preschool.  We were doing some craft with spices and our teacher told us not to eat ANY OF THEM.  I suppose that was my cue to lick my finger and stamp it on some of the flakes on the paper towel in front of me.  The pain in my mouth was terrible… View Post

What you’re looking at in the above picture is official Banner stationary, and an official Banner business card for a newly appointed news correspondent. I done went and got a writing gig!  Not familar with the magazine?  Well, friends, that’s OK.  Start with this article and you’ll be good to go.  I know the author, by the way. She’s only… View Post

walks in tanktops, trips to the mailbox become adventures in exploring new territory, meetings around the water table, cookies baked for an end of the school year picnic, mornings spent looking at the ducks summer’s here.

This afternoon the girls and I went to Starbucks.  This is nothing terrifically novel, we find ourselves there often after the park or library or errands.  “Can we sit?” they always ask, holding chocolate milk boxes in their hands.  I always say yes. Today, we brought along coloring books, math puzzles, and reading books.  Hadley and Harper worked on them while… View Post